Dunmow Rural District
Dunmow may refer to: *Great Dunmow, a town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England ** Dunmow railway station, a disused station *John Dunmow, a Canon of Windsor *Little Dunmow Little Dunmow is a village situated in rural Essex, England, in the vale of the River Chelmer about east-southeast of the town of Great Dunmow. It can be reached from the Dunmow South exit of the A120 by following the road towards Braintree (B ...

Great Dunmow
Great Dunmow is a historic market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It is situated on the north of the A120 road, approximately midway between Bishop's Stortford and Braintree, five miles east of London Stansted Airport. Originally the site of a Roman settlement on Stane Street, the town thrived during the Middle Ages. Many buildings survive from this period, including a 16th-century town hall. Dunmow means "Meadow on the Hill". The settlement was variously referred to as Dunmow Magna, Much Dunmow, or most commonly Great Dunmow. As of 2021, Robert Nicholson is Emeritus Mayor of Great Dunmow. History A Roman small town developed on the junction between Stane Street and the Roman roads which ran northeast to southwest from Sudbury to London and northwest to southeast from Cambridge to Chelmsford. The main settlement area spread westwards from the road junction, with cemeteries on the outskirts. There was a second Roman settlement at Church E ...
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Dunmow Railway Station
Dunmow railway station was a station serving Great Dunmow, Essex. The station was from Bishop's Stortford on the Bishop's Stortford to Braintree branch line (Engineer's Line Reference BSB). History The railway line through Dunmow was built by the Bishop's Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree Railway (BSD&BR). The line, including Dunmow station, was opened on 22 February 1869, and on the same day the BSD&BR company was absorbed by the Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R .... Regular services ended on 3 March 1952, but the station was not formally closed to passengers until after August 1961. It closed to goods on 1 April 1969. The site and trackbed have been used for the B1256 Dunmow Bypass and no trace of the railway remains. Route References ...
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John Dunmow
John Dunmoe BDec (also Dunmow, Dumoe, Dunow or Dunowe) (died 25 January 1489) was a Dean and Canons of Windsor, Canon of Windsor from 1450 to 1455 and Archdeacon of Gloucester from 1487 to 1489 and Bishop of Limerick from 1486 to 1489. Dunmow is described by Canon Begley as a canon of Exeter, Doctor of Laws and acting as ambassador from Henry VII of England, Henry VII to the Papal court in Rome. He died in 1489 having never visited his diocese. He is also listed as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Exeter. Career He was appointed: *Rector of Hanworth, Middlesex 1432 *Prebendary of Barnby in York 1475 - 1481 *Rector of St Magnus-the-Martyr, St Magnus London Bridge 1481 - 1489 *Archdeacon of Gloucester 1487 *Rector of Church of St Peter ad Vincula 1488 *Bishop of Limerick 1486 - 1489 *King's Proctor at Rome He was appointed to the ninth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1476 and held the canonry until 1488. Notes

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